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F. L. DYER.

ASSEMBLY VOTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 23. 1917.

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ASSEMBLY VOTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 23. i917.

Patented July 1, 1919.

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FRANK L. DYER, 0F MONTGLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

ASSEMBLY-VOTING MACHINE.

Original application filed February 2, 1915, Serial No. 5,601.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1, 1919.

Divided and this application filed March 23,

1917. Serial No. 156,822.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK L. DYER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Montclair, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, haveinvented a Certain new and useful Improvement in Assembly-VotingMachines, of which the following is a specification.

The present application is a division of my application for LettersPatent filed February 2, 1915, Serial No. 5601, for assembly votingmachines.

My invention relates to improvements in assembly voting machines of thetype disclosed and claimed by me in Patent No.

701,314, dated June 3, 1902, and by means of which I enlarge the scopeand improve the operation of the apparatus.

With the apparatus disclosed in my patent, I make use of a transmitterlocated at each members desk, or. adjacent to his seat, by means ofwhich one or the other of two circuits could be closed, corresponding tothe two votes Yes or No.

In my application for Letters Patent filed February 2, 1915, Serial No.5601, I disclosed certain improvements on the apparatus shown in saidpatent, by which, instead of printing only two kinds of votes,affirmative and negative, I provide also for makinga record of suchmembers whomay wish to vote Present, as well as of those who may wish tovote Paired, and of those who do not vote at all. p In this way a verycomplete printed record will be secured. My present improvements relateparticularly to the sendingdevice for transmitting the vote of theindividual member to a suitable recording machine, preferably of thegeneral type disclosed in my said patent.

In order that the invention may be better understood, attentionisdirected to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, and in which' Figure 1 is a front view of one ofthetransmitting devices, showing the front broken way to disclose theindicator disk;

t. Fig. 2 visa longitudinal sectional view of Fig.1;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fi 2' a 4 is a section on the line44: of

1 Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a sectiononthe line 5- 5;of Fig.

2; the View being taken in the direction of the arrow looking toward thefront of the transmitter Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view showing thecontact disk in the transmitter; and

Fig. 7 is a front view of one of the polarized magnets preferably usedin the transmitter. I

In the above views corresponding parts are represented by the samereference numerals.

Referring to these drawings, 15 represents a casing containing thetransmitting mech anism. Mounted therein is a lock barrel 16, preferablya Yale lock, carrying a pointer 17 adapted to move with respect to theindications Not voting, Yes, No, Present, and Paired appearing on theface of the casing, so as to guide the member in determining how far toturn the lock barrel to vote as he desires. The lock barrel carries agearlS on its inner end, which meshes with a gear 19 loosely mounted onthe shaft 20. The gear 19 carries a pin 21, which engages with an arm 22(see Fig. 5) so that when the lock barrel is turned in one direction,the pin engaging the arm 22 will move the shaft 20 for a part of arevolution, but when the lock barrel is moved in the opposite directionto withdraw the key,

the pin 21 will move away from the arm 22,

. ed, as shown in Fig. 7, so that the armature will be polarized andhence will respond to currents of One polarity, but not to currents ofthe opposite polarity. Cooperating with the armature 25 is a latch 29,having a finger 30, so arranged that when the armature 25 is attractedto withdraw the tooth just as the toothed wheel approaches its backwardposition, to thus withdraw the finger 30 from the end of the armature 25and permit the armature to again be moved with the tooth 24: inengagement with the first tooth of the toothed wheel 23, correspondingto the not voting position.

The gear 19 engages a pinion 33, mounted on a shaft 3 1 and adapted todrive an escape wheel 35 through a ratchet and pawl 36, as shown in Fig.5. The parts are so arranged that when the lock barrel is turned to movethe shaft 20 into the desired voting position, the gear 19, rotating thepinion 33, will move the pawl with respect to the ratchet so as not toturn the escape wheel 35. lVhen, however, the shaft 20 is released, aswill be explained, the pawl will engage the ratchet and the escape wheelwill be turned, operating the escapement 37 and causing the returnmovement of the shaft 20 to beretarded, thus permitting a gradual returnof the .parts to their original position. A spring 38 on the shaft 20 iswound up when the shaft is advanced, and its tension returns the shaftto its normal position when the shaft is released. The tail of theescapement 37 works in close proximity to a brake magnet 39, so thatwhen the magnet is energized it will lock the escapement and prevent theparts from moving. \Vhen, however, the magnet is not energized, theescapement can vibrate freely to allow the parts to slowly return totheir original position. The magnets 26 and 39, at each transmittingstation, are arranged in series.

On the shaft 20 is an insulating disk to, carrying a single contact 41,which is connected to a collecting ring (see Fig. (3) with which a brush%2 engages to close the circuit to the contact e1. Engaging theperiphery of the disk 40 are live cont-acts $3, each car.- ried onsprings, as shown, and with which the contact piece '-.L1 is adapted tosuccesssively make contact. These contacts 43 cor respond to the specialcircuits leading to the recording apparatus and controlling the fivevarieties of votes, and the common return circuit of said contactsincludes the magnets 26 and 39, as described in said application. At thefront of the shaft 20 is a disk 4+1, carrying the representations Notvoting,

Yes, No, Present, and Paired, one

of which indications will be observed through an opening s5 in front ofthe casing, covered by a glass window 926, thus confirming the vote thatthe member desires totransmit.

In order to reset the apparatus so as to permit a correction in thevote, I show a small lever l7 on the front of the casing mounted I on ashaft 48. This lever is provided with a cam 49, which engages the tail50m"; the armature 25, so that when the lever 47 is movement.

operated it will withdraw the tooth 2% from the toothed wheel 23 andthereby release the toothed wheel so as to permit the shaft 20 to returnto its original position. The shaft -18 is also provided with a cam 51,engaging a circuit spring so as thereby to short-circuit and thusdisable the b 'ake magnet 39.

In operation, when a member desires to vote, he inserts his key in thelock 10 and turns it to the required position. If he votes Yes, thesecond toot-h of the disk 23 will lock the shaft 20 in that positionwith the word Yes disclosed in the opening d5. If he votes No thetoothed disk would be locked in the next position, and so on, thislocking being effected by the tooth 24; 011 the armature 25 engaging thetooth of the disk and preventing the return movement of the disk. Thecontact device ll will be brought beneath and locked in contact with oneor the other of the contacts 43, to thereby close the circuit to thedesired selecting magnet of the recording device. If the member desires51, actuating the contacts 52, so to shortcircuit the brake magnetduring this return After all the members have voted, the recordingapparatus, preferably of the type disclosed in my said patent, isoperated. hen the collecting device there of engages the contact plateor plates corresponding with any particular transmitter, it closes thecircuit to the desired selecting magnet, which determines the particularlist in which the members name is to be printed.

The closing of'this circuit energizes the mag net 26 and withdraws thetooth 24 from the toothed wheel 23, and the magnet 26 will be locked inits withdrawn position by the finger 30 of the latch 29. The shaft,however, will not immediately return because the brake magnet 39, beingin series with the magnet 26, will be energized, and the escapement 37will hold the shaft 20 from rotating. W'hen, however, thecircuit isbroken at the receiving or recording device, the

magnet 39 will be deenergized, allowing the escapement 37 to vibrate andthus. freeing the shaft 20, and the spring 38 will return the shaftslowly to its original position. Near the end of this movement, the pin31 engages the tail 32 of the latch 29, so as to free the armature 25,which will again be I moved in contact with the toothed wheel 23, readyfor the next operation. The return of the shaft 20 to its originalposition will bring the words Not voting opposite the opening 45, sothat the member will know that his vote has been received. It will beobserved that if a member does not vote, so that the apparatus will notbe actuated, the tooth 24 will remain in engagement with the first toothof the wheel 23 and the contact ll will remain in engagement with thelower contact &3 in circuit with the particular selecting magnetcorresponding with the Not voting list, so that the members name will beprinted in the list of Not voting.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. In a transmitter for assembly voting apparatus of the type described,the combination with a shaft, a contact devicecarried thereby, means forlocking the shaft in any one of its successive positions, a spring forreturning the shaft to its normal position when released, and means forretarding the return movement of the shaft, substantially set forth.

2. In a transmitter for assembly voting apparatus of the type described,the combination with a contact device adapted to make contact with anyone of successive circuits, means for locking the contact device in itsset position, a magnet for releasing the contact device, and a brakemagnet for locking the contact .device against return movement duringthe recording operation,-

substantially set forth.

3. In a transmitter for assembly voting apparatus of the type described,in combination with a contact device adapted to make contact with anyone of successive circuits, means for locking the contact device in itsset position, a magnet for releasing the contact device, and a brakemagnet for locking the contact device against return movement during therecording operation, said magnet being connected in series in a commonreturn for all of said circuits, substantially set forth.

4. In a transmitter for assembly voting apparatus of the type described,the combination with a contact device adapted to make contact with anyone of successive circuits, means for locking the contact device in itsset position, an escapement for retarding the return movement of thecontact device, and a brake magnet cooperating with said escapement tolock the same during the recording operation, substantially set forth.

5. In a transmitter for assembly voting apparatus of the type described,the combination with a contact device adapted to make contact with anyone of successive circuits, means for locking the contact device in itsset position, an escapement for retarding the return movement of thecontact device, a brake magnet cooperating with said escapement to lockthe same during the recording operation, and means for manually releasinously disabling the brake magnet, substantially set forth.

6. In a transmitter for assembly voting apparatus of the type described,the combination with a contact device adapted to make contact with anyone of successive circuits, an armature for locking the contact devicein its set position, a magnet for actuating the armature, and a latchfor look ing the armature in its withdrawn position, substantially setforth.

7. In a transmitter for assembly voting apparatus of the type described,the combination with a contact device adapted to make contact with anyone of successive circuits, an armature for locking the contact devicein its set position, a magnet for actuating the armature, a latch forlocking the armature in its withdrawn position, and means for trippingsaid latch near the end the contact device and simultane-' of the returnmovement of the contact de- FRANK L. DYER.

Witnesses: I

A. E. BENTON, J G. MCDERMOTT.

Copies of this patent-may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

